Posted by: Jesse on: 12/28/2012 01:21 AM

You grew your mustache, bought a flannel, and moved to Seattle. What more do you need for the hipster life? Some fresh vinyl records, 3D printing style.

We have written a couple stories about 3D printed LP records before, but they were only for a Fisher Price toy record player. But, as the 3D printing community gets smarter and smarter, Amanda Ghassaei figured out how to print a vinyl record that will player on any "normal" record player. The perfect addition to your hipster collection of records!

The really cool part about this whole process is the ability to make records out of any song you like, even if it as never released on vinyl. All you need is the digital music file (like an MP3).

"These records play on regular turntables, with regular needles, at regular speeds, just like any vinyl record."

Whats more? Amanda was nice enough to write a very nice how-to on Instructables. You can read more about how she did it there. Don't worry if you don't want to go through the trouble of creating the records yourself, Amanda has uploaded her 3D models to 123D for you to download and print yourself.

Here is a video of Daft Punk and Nirvana playing on a 3D printed 33rpm record. I will warn you, this process is very new, and (simple said) these printed records sound like crap. But thats okay! Give the 3D printer geeks a couple weeks and they will have the records perfected.